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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicPayal Kapadia

Topic: Payal Kapadia

Indian films shine at Asian Film Awards. All We Imagine As Light is Best Film, Santosh wins 2 honours

The 18th edition of the Asian Film awards was held Sunday in Hong Kong. Shahana Goswami won the Best Actress award for Santosh. All We Imagine As Light was nominated in 6 categories.

Payal Kapadia Cannes win starts new debate—who really produced ‘All We Imagine as Light’?

The question of whether the NFDC was a co-producer is now part of a heated debate. The film does not mention the Government of India or NFDC anywhere.

Influencers aren’t the best ‘Indian representation’ at Cannes. Filmmakers are

Even if fashion was a core feature of Cannes, Indian influencers failed at that too. No one, barring Nancy Tyagi, was able to turn heads on the red carpet.

Malayali nurses, NRI husband, Muslim lover—Payal Kapadia’s Cannes film is personal & political

All We Imagine As Light isn't Payal Kapadia's first Cannes win. She won the Oeil d’Or award for best documentary film in 2021 for A Night of Knowing Nothing.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.